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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt index ae66cce682..52534dd566 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.26.0.txt @@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ UI, Workflows & Features placed a bit more stress in the documentation, as new users often get confused. + * Two help messages given when "git add" notices the user gave it + nothing to add have been updated to use advise() API. + + * A new version of fsmonitor-watchman hook has been introduced, to + avoid races. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -49,6 +55,37 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Warn programmers about pretend_object_file() that allows the code to tentatively use in-core objects. + * The way "git pack-objects" reuses objects stored in existing pack + to generate its result has been improved. + + * The transport protocol version 2 becomes the default one. + + * Traditionally, we avoided threaded grep while searching in objects + (as opposed to files in the working tree) as accesses to the object + layer is not thread-safe. This limitation is getting lifted. + + * "git rebase -i" (and friends) used to unnecessarily check out the + tip of the branch to be rebased, which has been corrected. + + * A low-level API function get_oid(), that accepts various ways to + name an object, used to issue end-user facing error messages + without l10n, which has been updated to be translatable. + + * Unneeded connectivity check is now disabled in a partial clone when + fetching into it. + + * Some rough edges in the sparse-checkout feature, especially around + the cone mode, have been cleaned up. + + * The diff-* plumbing family of subcommands now pay attention to the + diff.wsErrorHighlight configuration, which has been ignored before; + this allows "git add -p" to also show the whitespace problems to + the end user. + + * Some codepaths were given a repository instance as a parameter to + work in the repository, but passed the_repository instance to its + callees, which has been cleaned up (somewhat). + Fixes since v2.25 ----------------- @@ -152,6 +189,39 @@ Fixes since v2.25 * Unhelpful warning messages during documentation build have been squelched. (merge 30183894ea js/ci-squelch-doc-warning later to maint). + * "git rebase -i" identifies existing commits in its todo file with + their abbreviated object name, which could become ambigous as it + goes to create new commits, and has a mechanism to avoid ambiguity + in the main part of its execution. A few other cases however were + not covered by the protection against ambiguity, which has been + corrected. + (merge 26027625dd js/rebase-i-with-colliding-hash later to maint). + + * Allow the rebase.missingCommitsCheck configuration to kick in when + "rebase --edit-todo" and "rebase --continue" restarts the procedure. + (merge 5a5445d878 ag/edit-todo-drop-check later to maint). + + * The way "git submodule status" reports an initialized but not yet + populated submodule has not been reimplemented correctly when a + part of the "git submodule" command was rewritten in C, which has + been corrected. + (merge f38c92452d pk/status-of-uncloned-submodule later to maint). + + * The code to automatically shrink the fan-out in the notes tree had + an off-by-one bug, which has been killed. + (merge dbc27477ff jh/notes-fanout-fix later to maint). + + * The index-pack code now diagnoses a bad input packstream that + records the same object twice when it is used as delta base; the + code used to declare a software bug when encountering such an + input, but it is an input error. + (merge a21781011f jk/index-pack-dupfix later to maint). + + * The code to compute the commit-graph has been taught to use a more + robust way to tell if two object directories refer to the same + thing. + (merge a7df60cac8 tb/commit-graph-object-dir later to maint). + * Other code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 26f924d50e en/simplify-check-updates-in-unpack-trees later to maint). (merge 065027ee1a en/string-list-can-be-custom-sorted later to maint). @@ -173,3 +243,4 @@ Fixes since v2.25 (merge 303b3c1c46 es/submodule-fetch-message-fix later to maint). (merge 9299f84921 ma/diff-doc-clarify-regexp-example later to maint). (merge 2b0f19fa7a js/convert-typofix later to maint). + (merge 5290d45134 jk/alloc-cleanups later to maint). |